﻿Manulea.] sceophulariace^ (Hiera). 225 



Westeen Region: Little Namaqualand; on flats at Silver Fontein, near 

 Ookiep, 2000 ft., Br^ge, 3132 ! on hills by the Buffels River, 1600 ft., Schlechter, 

 11263 ! and without precise locality, Sculli/, 141 ! Little Bashinanland, Keu- 

 zabies, Max- Schlechter, 108 ! 



2. M. silenoides (E. Meyer ex Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag. i, 381) ; an annual herb, erect, glabrous or slightly puberulous, 

 branched at the base or simple, 1-6 in. high, somewhat glossy ; stem 

 or branches scape-like, erect or ascending, leafy at the base, naked 

 above or nearly so ; leaves elliptical or obovate, obtuse, wedge-shaped 

 at the base, petiolate, entire, repand or dentate, mostly radical or 

 subradieal, ^-1-^- in. long, -J-| in. broad; petioles -jV— J in. long; 

 upper leaves few or absent, narrow ; flowers yellow, abovit ^—^^ in- 

 long, numerous or several, racemose ; racemes simple, subcapitate or 

 oblong, short, or in fruit elongating, terminal, }~3 in. long ; pedicels 

 rather short or the lower in fruit up to | in. long, alternate, bracteate 

 at the base ; bracts linear or subulate, xV~o i"- ^^^S > calyx yo—s in. 

 long in flower, i— J in. long in fruit, 5-partite, ebracteolate ; segments 

 linear, obtuse, puberulous or papillose ; corolla-tube rather slender, 

 shortly or scarcely exceeding the calyx, nearly glabrous or papillose 

 outside ; lobes spreading, 'i\-} in. long, obovate or oblong, obtuse, 

 cleft or retuse at the apex ; mouth glabrous ; stamens included ; 

 capsules ovoid, slightly compressed, glabrous, -J— ^ in. long. DC. 

 Prodr. X, 363 ; not of Drege in Linncea, xx. 199. 



Var. )8, minor (E. Meyor ex Benth. 11. cc.) ; flowers rather smaller than 

 usual in the type. 



Coast Region : Clanwilliam Div. ; near Clanwilliam, 300-350 ft., Schlechter, 

 8021 ! 5058 ! Worcester Div. j Hex River Valley, Wolley Dod, 4009 ! 



Western Region: Little Namaqualand, 2000-3200 ft. ; Karakuls, Drege! 

 near Ookiep, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5741! 5742! near Modder Fontein, 

 Sohis Herb. Norm. Aust-Afr., 667 ! and without precise locality, Sculhj, 2 ! 203 ! 

 Var. ;8 : Little Namaqualand ; Modder Fontein, 1500-2000 ft., Drege, 3141 ! 

 Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; between Zwartdooru River and Miereu Kasteel, below 

 1000 ft., Dre^e, 3140! 



3. M. fragrans (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 179) ; an 

 annual herb, erect, glabrous or very nearly so, rather glossy, branched 

 and leafy at the crown of the root, 2-6 in. high ; stems and branches 

 erect or ascending, scape-like or with a few leaves near the base, 

 rather slender ancf firm; leaves mostly radical and rosulate, obovate 

 or spathulate, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, attenuate into 

 the petiole, entire or distantly denticulate, rather thin, }-l in. long, 

 M in. broad; petioles ^-f in. long; flowers numerous, racemose, 

 i-} in. long ; pedicels very short, up to yV i^. long in flower and to 

 } in. long in fruit, the upper very short ; racemes terminal in fruit 

 becoming a as Ion" as the stems, shorter in flower ; bracts small, 

 subulate, at the base of the pedicels, ^^-^^ in- long; calyx deeply 

 5-lobed, yL_i^ in. long in flower, yVi i"- ^^"o '^ *™'*'^ segments 

 linear, erect, obtuse or scarcely pointed, minutely or obsolctely 



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